The FSB uncovered Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate agents in Crimea who were planning a series of terrorist attacks. Among their targets were Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov, parliament speaker Vladimir Konstantinov, Yalta mayor Yanina Pavlenko, the FSB Public Relations Center said.
The peninsula’s transportation structure was to suffer terrorist attacks. Roman Mashovets, deputy head of Zelenskyy’s office, was appointed organizer.
It has been established that the direct organizer of the terrorist attacks and the coordinator of the preparation of the assassinations of high officials is a close associate of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, an officer of the active reserve of military intelligence Roman Mashovets, who has been the deputy chief of staff of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since 2020
— stated in the message from the Department of Energy.
As part of the operation, Russian and Ukrainian citizens were detained: Viktor Podvalny, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergey Krivoshein, Konstantin Evmenenko, Igor Zorin and Sergey Voinarovsky. During a search, they found five ready-made bombs, electric detonators, radio-controlled mechanisms, trackers for surveillance. Men aged 35 to 55.
Security forces have cut off the supply of British explosives and explosive device components from Bulgaria via Turkey and Georgia to Russia under the guise of supplying electric cookers.
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